Remembering Nacho Mama's owner Patrick 'Scunny' McCusker [Pictures]

CaptionO'Donnell Square memorial for Scunny

Sloane Brown, For The Baltimore Sun

Canton's O'Donnell Square was blocked to traffic the evening after Patrick "Scunny" McCusker's funeral for an event dedicated to the late owner of Nacho Mama's and Mama's On The Half Shell. Several hundred people filled the area celebrate the life of the bigger-than-life unofficial "mayor of Canton," while a number of performers provided entertainment on a stage set up in the middle of the square. All the restaurants around the square donated 30% of the night's proceeds to McCusker's favorite charity, Believe In Tomorrow Children's Foundation.

Canton's O'Donnell Square was blocked to traffic the evening after Patrick "Scunny" McCusker's funeral for an event dedicated to the late owner of Nacho Mama's and Mama's On The Half Shell. Several hundred people filled the area celebrate the life of the bigger-than-life unofficial "mayor of Canton," while a number of performers provided entertainment on a stage set up in the middle of the square. All the restaurants around the square donated 30% of the night's proceeds to McCusker's favorite charity, Believe In Tomorrow Children's Foundation. (Sloane Brown, For The Baltimore Sun)

Canton resident Merritt Dworkin and Terry McCready, Elvis tribute artist, recount memories of Scunny McCusker for a video that Canton-based DCO Productions is putting together for his family. The firm is best known for the Geiko "Caveman" commercials it produces, which McCusker loved. "We thought up commercials in Nacho Mama's all the time. This was one of my places of 'inspirado,' as Scunny used to say," says DCP owner Don Cherel, who decided to donate his company's services for the video, and set up an area outside the restaurants the evening of the memorial where people could tell their "Scunny stories."

Canton resident Merritt Dworkin and Terry McCready, Elvis tribute artist, recount memories of Scunny McCusker for a video that Canton-based DCO Productions is putting together for his family. The firm is best known for the Geiko "Caveman" commercials it produces, which McCusker loved. "We thought up commercials in Nacho Mama's all the time. This was one of my places of 'inspirado,' as Scunny used to say," says DCP owner Don Cherel, who decided to donate his company's services for the video, and set up an area outside the restaurants the evening of the memorial where people could tell their "Scunny stories." (Sloane Brown, for The Baltimore Sun)